Prof. Dr. Serdar Turhal, lisans öncesi öğrenimlerinin ardından İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi'nde başladığı tıp eğitimini başarıyla tamamlayarak tıp doktoru unvanı almıştır. İhtisasını ise, Amerika Birleşik Devletlerinde Connecticut eyaletindeki Yale Üniversitesi’ne bağlı Griffin Hastanesi’nde 1993 yılında tamamlayarak Dahiliye - İç Hastalıkları uzmanı olmuştur. Ayrıca Mount Sinai Tıp Fakültesi Hematoloji – Onkoloji Bilim
Dalı Mount Sinai Tıp Fakültesi, New York, New York, ABD'de Tıbbi Onkoloji üzerine yan dal ihtisas eğitimini de tamamlamıştır. Marmara Üniversite Hastanesi Onkoloji Bilim Dalı'nda öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmış olan Prof. Dr. Serdar Turhal, mesleki çalışmalarına şu an İstanbul'da bulunan özel muayenehanesi'nde devam etmektedir.
1- Özofagus kanserinde neoadjuvan ve adjuvan tedavi yaklaşımları, Belgrad/Sırbistan, Kasım 2011. Sırbistan Kanser Birliği Toplantısı. URL: http://www.serbiancancer.org/english.html 2- Türk Kanser Hastaları’nda standart kemoterapi tedavilerinin uygulanabilirliği, Baltimore/ABD, Eylül 2011. Farmakoloji ve Kanser Toplantısı. URL: http://www.omicsonline.org/international-scientific-conferences/ 3- Türkiye’de mide kanserine olan yaklaşım, Tiflis/Gürcistan, Mayıs 2011, Gürcistan Kanser Enstitüsü URL: http://eafo.info/en/
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer amongman and seventh among woman and ranked as the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths [1, 2]. Chronic liver injury, Hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) virus infections, alcohol-associated diseases, and aflatoxin intoxications are the leading causes of HCC development. Several mutations affecting WNT/𝛽-Catenin, PI3K/RAS,…
Efforts to improve outcomes beyond those achieved with 1 year of trastuzumab in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer are ongoing. Several different approaches, including extending the duration of trastuzumab to 2 years (HERceptin Adjuvant [HERA] trial),5 concurrent or sequential administration of lapatinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, with trastuzumab (Adjuvant Lapatinib and/or Trastuzumab Treatment Optimisation…
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for approximately 2% of all cancers.1 On admission, one-third of patients with RCC are at the metastatic stage.2 Chemotherapy resistance is very high in patients with RCC.3 Only a limited subset of patients ( 20%) benefit from cytokine therapy.4-7 It has been shown that the median progressionfree survival (PFS) was…
Colorectal cancer is among the most common type of cancers worldwide. According to the GLOBOCAN 2008 database, which is published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer to estimate the worldwide incidence and mortality of 27 cancers from 182 countries, colorectal cancer (1.23 million, 9.7% of the total) is the third most commonly diagnosed…
Radical cystectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy has been considered the standard treatment in muscle-invasive bladder cancer patients and 5-year overall survival rates are about 60 %.with this treatment [1] Alternatively, bladderpreserving strategies with maximal transurethral resection of bladder tumor followed by platinum-based chemoradiotherapy has been tested in randomized controlled trials [2–6]. In these studies, the complete…
